Department of Communication and Theatre

CURRICULUM VITAE

PETER C. EHRENHAUS

Professor and Chair

Department of Communication and Theatre

Pacific Lutheran University

February 2007

Education

Ph.D., 1979, SpeechCommunication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

M.A., 1975, SpeechCommunication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

B.A., 1973, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Employment

Department of Communication and Theatre, Pacific Lutheran University,

Professor, September 2003 – present; Chair, June 2006.

Associate Professor, September 2000 - 2003

Visiting Associate Professor, September 1998 – August 2000

Department of Speech Communication, Portland State University, 1990-June 1998.

Associate Professor (tenured 1990), 1990-1998; Acting Chair, 1998.

Assistant Professor, 1986-1990.

Department of Communication, Rutgers University, Assistant Professor, 1981-1986.

Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, Lecturer, 1979-1981.

Dissertation

Attributing Communicative Intent from the Actor and Observer Perspectives: A Test of the Access to Information Hypothesis. 1979. Robert L. Scott & David L. Rarick, co-chairs.

SCHOLARSHIP

Publications

Books

Morris, R. & P. Ehrenhaus, (Eds.), Cultural Legacies of Vietnam: Uses of the Past in the Present, Ablex Publishing, 1990, 238 pp.

Chapters

Owen, A.S. & P. Ehrenhaus. Towards a Visual Rhetoric of Witnessing: In B. Biesecker & J. Lucaites (Eds.), Visual Rhetorics: History, Memory, Trauma. University of Alabama Press, forthcoming.

Ehrenhaus, P. & A.S. Owen. Disciplining Popular Historians: Stone, Spielberg, and the Crisis of Public Memory. In T. Goodnight (Ed.), Arguing Communication and Culture. NCA, 2002, 652-660.

Ehrenhaus, P. Trauma, Collective Memory, and the Receding Past. In T. Hollihan (Ed.), Argument at Century's End: Reflecting on the Past and Envisioning the Future. NCA, 2000, 544-552.

Owen, A.S. & Ehrenhaus, P. Oliver Stone's Not-So-Wild Palms: A Postmodern Critique. In L. VandeBerg, L. Wimmer, & B. Gronbeck (Eds.), Television Criticism. HarperCollins, 1997, 349-363.

Ehrenhaus, P. Cultural Narratives and the Therapeutic Motif: The Political Containment of Vietnam Veterans. In D. Mumby (Ed.), Narrative and Social Control. Sage Publications, 1993, 77-96.

Ehrenhaus, P., On Americans Held Prisoner in Southeast Asia: The POW Issue as "Lesson" of Vietnam. In R. Morris & P. Ehrenhaus, (Eds.), Cultural Legacies of Vietnam: Uses of the Past in the Present. Ablex Publishing, 1990, 9-26.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Morris, R., Epilogue: Forms of Remembering, Forms of Forgetting. In R. Morris & P. Ehrenhaus, (Eds.), Cultural Legacies of Vietnam: Uses of the Past in the Present. Ablex Publishing, 1990, 223-228.

Ehrenhaus, P., Attributing Intention to Communication: Information as the Interpretation of Interaction. In B. Ruben (Ed.), Information and Behavior (Vol. 2). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 1988.

Ehrenhaus, P. Discourse, Gender, and Judgmental Confidence. In L. Stewart and S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), Communication, Gender and Sex Roles in Diverse Interaction Contexts. Ablex Publishing, 1986, 147-160.

Ehrenhaus, P., Culture and the Attribution Process: Barriers to Effective Intercultural Communication. In W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Intercultural Communication Theory: Current Perspectives. Sage Publications, 1983, 259-270.

Ehrenhaus, P., Attribution Theory: Implications for Intercultural Communication. In M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 6. Sage Publications, 1982, 721-734.

Journal Articles

Ehrenhaus, P. & A.S. Owen. Race Violence and Christian Evangelicalism: Performances of Faith. Text and Performance Quarterly. 2004, 24, 276-301.

Ehrenhaus, P. Why We Fought: Holocaust Memory in Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan.” Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2001, 18, 321-337.

Owen, A.S. & Ehrenhaus, P. Animating a Critical Rhetoric: On the Feeding Habits of American Empire. Western Journal of Communication, 1993, 57, 169-177.

Ehrenhaus, P. Co-opting the Academy: On the Urgency of Reframing "Applied." Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1991, 19, 123-128.

Ehrenhaus, P. The Wall. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1989, 6, 94-98.

Ehrenhaus, P. On Not Remembering Vietnam. Journal of Communication, 1989, 39(1), 96-107.

Ehrenhaus, P. Silence and Symbolic Expression. Communication Monographs, 1988, 55, 41-57.

Ehrenhaus, P. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: An Invitation to Argument. Argumentation and Advocacy, 1988, 25, 54-64.

Book reviews

Ehrenhaus, P. [Review of Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation, by Gregory Olsen]. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1997, 83, 119-120.

Ehrenhaus, P. [Review of Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action, by Walter R. Fisher]. Communication Education, 1988, 37, 174-175.

Ehrenhaus, P. [Review of Symbolic Inducement and Knowing: A Study in the Foundations of Rhetoric, by Richard, B. Gregg]. Communication Education, 1988, 37, 246-247.

Presentations at Professional Meetings

Ehrenhaus, P. “Framing Lynching Photography.” Western States Communication Association, Seattle, Feb. 2007.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Some Reflections on the Ideological Implications of Visual Positionality,” Western States Communication Association, Seattle, Feb. 2007.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Lyrical Savagery, Profane Eloquence, Honest Corruption: Finding Refuge in Deadwood,” Western States Communication Association, Seattle, Feb. 2007.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Images of Lynching, Cultural Trauma, and Postmemory: Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities.” National Conference on Race and Pedagogy, September 2006.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Commemorating the Obscene: Race Lynching and Gestures of Reconciliation.” Western States Communication Association, Palm Springs, Feb. 2006.

Ehrenhaus, P. Respondent: “Literal and Abstract Approaches to Memorializing and Collective Memory.” National Communication Association, Boston, November 2005.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Resistance and Race Violence: The Anti-Lynching Campaign.” National Communication Association, Boston, November 2005.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Theorizing Representations of Abject Human Subjects: Why Contemporary Americans Fear Lynching Photography.” Northwest Communication Association, Coeur d’Alene, ID, April 2005.

Ehrenhaus, P. “The Macher and the Martyr: Jewish American Identities in Angels in America.” Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, Feb. 2005.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Miss Scarlett and her Imaginary Friend Have Church: A Peroration.”Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, Feb. 2005.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Re-visiting Reillusionment: Ideological Appropriation of the Greatest Generation.” National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov. 2004.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Reflections on the Current Status of Public Commemoration of the Nation-State.” (Roundtable.) National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov. 2004.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photographs as Contested Sites of Memory.” (with A. Susan Owen). National Communication Association, Miami, Nov. 2003.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Visual Representation, Lynching, and the Campaign for Anti-Lynching Legislation: Cultural and Political Uses of Photographic Images.” (with A. Susan Owen). Western States Communication Association, Salt Lake City, February 2003.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Constructing Communities through Race Violence and Resistance:

Rituals of Lynching and the Campaign for Anti-Lynching Legislation.” (with A. Susan Owen). Conference on Public Address (Topic: Rhetoric, Violence, Community), University of Georgia Athens, October 2002.

Ehrenhaus, P. “The Senator and the Sociopath: Sites of Reclamation of American National Virtue.” Western States Communication Association, Long Beach, February 2002.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Strategies of Visual Representation During Jim Crow: African American Resistance to Race Violence." (with A. Susan Owen). National Communication Association, Atlanta, November 2001.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Whitewashing Jim Crow: Fantasies of Racial Justice in Spielberg's The Green Mile." (with A. Susan Owen). National Communication Association, Atlanta, November 2001.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. “Disciplining Popular Historians: Stone, Spielberg, and the Crisis of Public Memory.” NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August 2001.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Inter-Generational Transformations of Traumatic Memory: Vestiges of Vietnam in Three Kings.” Western States Communication Association, Coeur d’Alene, February 2001.

Ehrenhaus, P. “From Saving Private Ryan to Saving Public Memory: Inter-textuality in the World War II Memorial Campaign.” National Communication Association, Seattle, November 2000.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. “Towards a Visual Rhetoric of Witnessing: Reflections on the Representation of Traumatic Memory.” University of Iowa Conference on Visual Rhetorics, July 2000.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Imag(in)ing the Body: Photographic Framing of Blood Sacrifice," Western States Communication Association, Sacramento, February 2000.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Why We Fought: Holocaust Memory in Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan," National Communication Association, Chicago, November 1999.

Ehrenhaus, P. “Trauma, Collective Memory, and the Receding Past: Cultural Reillusionment through the ‘Good War’,” NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, August 1999.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Commemorating the Unwon War: An Anniversary Story," Western States Communication Association, Vancouver, B.C., February 1999.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Real Men Eat Mat: Masculinities at Play in the Wrestling Ring," Western States Communication Association, Vancouver, B.C., February 1999.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Community-Based Learning: A View from Below," Northwest Communication Association, Couer d'Alene, April 1997.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Maligning the Messenger: Oliver Stone as Text," Speech Communication Association, San Diego, November 1996.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. "Crisis, Utopian Feminism, and the 'Retreat from Radicalism'," Speech Communication Association, San Diego, November 1996.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. "A Post-Modern Parable: Gender, Class, and Race Politics in the Social (de)Construction of a Fallen Cultural Hero," Western States Communication Association, Portland, February 1995.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Feeding on Spectacle: The Cultural Consumption of Violence as Pornographic," Western States Communication Association, Portland, February 1995.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. "Reflections on the Gendered Politics of Public Commemoration: Hegemony in Action at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," Western States Communication Association, Portland, February 1995.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Gender, Warfare, and Hegemony: Texts of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," Seminar on Ethnographic Inquiry, Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November 1994.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Return to the Research Site: Reflections on the Co-optation of Commemoration." Speech Communication Association, Miami Beach, November 1993.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Re-presenting the Past: Proprietary Struggle in the Matter of JFK." Speech Communication Association, Chicago, October 1992.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Seen from China Beach: The Ideological Struggle Continues." Western Speech Communication Association, Boise, February 1992.

Ehrenhaus, P. "From Lips to Hips and Back Again: Framing Media Fragments." Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, November 1991.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Beyond the Third Persona." Speech Communication Association, Chicago, November 1990.

Ehrenhaus, P. "On Doing Violence to 'The Past'." International Communication Association, Dublin, June 1990.

Ehrenhaus, P. "America's Vietnam: A Kennedy Inheritance." Western Speech Communication Association, Spokane, WA, February 1989.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Dionisopoulos, G. "Kennedy's Rhetoric of Counterinsurgency." Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1988.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Turning Away from Closure: National Silence After Vietnam." Western Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, February 1988.

Ehrenhaus, P. "On Americans Held Prisoner in Southeast Asia: The POW Issue as Hostage of American Foreign Policy." Speech Communication Association, Boston, MA, November 1987.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Warrior, Heal Thyself: Narrative of and at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Western Speech Communication Association Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, February, 1987.

Ehrenhaus, P. "On Not Remembering Vietnam: Problems in the Commemoration of Failure." Speech Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 1986.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Perceptual Organization of a Social Conversation." International Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, May, 1986.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Remembrance and Moral Truths: Encounters with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial." The Cultural Legacy of Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, April 1986.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Names, Not Inspiration: When a Memorial Speaks Nondiscursively." Eastern Communication Association Conference, Providence, RI, May 1985.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Silent Side of Speech Community." Speech Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 1984.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Assessing Conversational Involvement: Self-Monitoring and the Attribution Process." Top Three Paper. Eastern Communication Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 1984.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Perception of Ongoing Conversation: An Exploratory Study." Speech Communication Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1983.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Interpretation of Discourse: The Perceptual Unit, Gender, and Judgmental Confidence." Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, October 1983.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Culture and the Attribution Process: Tapping the Cognitive Bases of Culture." International Communication Association Conference, Dallas, TX, May 1983.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Implications of Attribution Theory for Intercultural Communication." Top Three Paper. International Communication Association Conference. Boston, MA, May 1982.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Actors, Observers, and the Attribution of Intent in Conversation." International Communication Association Conference. Boston, MA, May 1982.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Conversational Coherence and the Attribution Process." Temple University Conference on Discourse Analysis, Philadelphia, PA, March 1982. Co-authored with S. Ting-Toomey.

Ehrenhaus, P. "The Critical Study of Rhetorical Community: Applications of a Conceptual Model." Speech Communication Association Conference. Anaheim, CA, November 1981.

Ehrenhaus, P. "A Conceptual Model of Rhetorical Community." Top Three Paper. Central States Speech Association Conference. Chicago, IL, April 1981.

Ehrenhaus, P. "Divergent Attributions of Communicative Intent by Actors and Observers: The Influence of Expectation and Access to Information upon Conversational Sensibility." Top Three Paper. Central States Speech Association Conference. Chicago, IL, April 1980.

Scholarship in Progress

Book Manuscripts

Race Violence, Resistance, and Remembrance: Traumatic Memory in the American Community

Co-authoring with A.S. Owen (University of Puget Sound)

Audience: Scholarly, cross-over

Watering the Dead: Rhetoric, Memory, and National Identity.

Co-authoring with A.S. Owen (University of Puget Sound)

Audience: Scholarly, cross-over

Articles/Papers

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. Whitewashing Jim Crow: Rhetorical Strategies of White Redemption in Popular Film. In preparation for Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Ehrenhaus, P. & Owen, A.S. Photographic Representation and Artistic Commentary: The NAACP’s Anti-Lynching Campaign. In preparation for Journalism Theory.

Memberships in Professional Societies

(current)

National Communication Association (formerly Speech Communication Assoc.)

Western States Communication Association

Northwest Communication Association

TEACHING

Pacific Lutheran University:

Current Responsibilities

COMA 210Interviewing

COMA 301Media & Cultural Criticism

COMA 303Gender and Communication

COMA 304Intercultural Communication

COMA 306Persuasion

COMA 314Intercultural Workshop

COMA 401Visual Culture

Former

COMA 123Introduction to Rhetorical Communication

COMA 330Public Speaking

COMA 333Foundations of Communication Theory

COMA 336 Communication for Business and the Professions

COMA 433Rhetorical and Communication Theory

COMA 437 Advanced Interpersonal Communication

COMA 485Honors Seminar: Representation, Collective Memory and Identity

COMA 490Capstone Seminar

COMA 500Effective Communications

Portland State University:

SP 541 Methods of Rhetorical Criticism (developed)

SP 533 Seminar: Organizational Communication

SP 531 Qualitative Research Methods (developed)

SP 514 Communication, Culture, and Community (developed)

SP 514 Seminar: Persuasion Theory (revised)

SP 511 Introduction to Graduate Studies

SP 416/516 Theories of Communication

SP 399 Approaches to Communication Inquiry (developed)

SP 340 Interviewing

SP 314 Persuasion

SP 313 Communication in Groups

SP 217 Mass Communication and Society (revised)

Rutgers University:

Research Methods (Grad)

Advanced Communication Theory & Research

Communication Research

Interpersonal Communication

Persuasive Communication

Principles of Interviewing (developed)

Mass Communication Processes

Basic Speaking

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee:

Theory and Practice of Persuasion

Business and Professional Communication

Interviewing

Persuasive Speaking

Basic Speaking

Masters Theses Directed

(Portland State University)

• "The Call of Service: A Phenomenological Study of Service Learning in Higher Education,", (1999), J. Voegele.
• "Graduate Teaching Assistants' Communicative Concerns in the Classroom," (1999), H. Petzold.
• "Affirmative Action: A Burkean Analysis of Oppositional Rhetoric," (1998), S. Welch.
• "Perspectives on the Potential of Mediation: A Case Study," (1996), D. Kaufman.
• "An Intercultural Analysis of Differences in Appropriateness Ratings of Facial Expressions between Japanese and American Subjects," (1993), P. Peschka-Daskalos
• "The Public Persona of Nelson Mandela: A Study of U.S. Print Media Narratives," (1993), M. McVey
• "An Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Marital Conflict," (1993), A. Burgermeister-Seger
• "Defusing a Rhetorical Situation through Apologia: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair," (1992), R. Sutherland
• "The Relationship of Patients' Perceptions of Physicians' Communication Style to Patient Satisfaction," (1991), L. Abramson
• "Making Sense of America: A Phenomenological Analysis of Chinese Nationals' Interactions in the U.S.," (1990), D. McElroy
• "A News Discourse Analysis of La Nacion," (1988), J. Chan

SERVICE

Pacific Lutheran University

Institutional

Committees:

• Educational Policies Committee, 2002-2005
• Chair, 2003-2004, 2004-2005
• Women’s Studies Executive Committee, 2000-2003
• Diversity in the Core Committee, 2002-2003

University Advising for first-year students: 2001-2002, 2002-2003

Faculty Mentor to Wendy Fowler (’05), Gates Scholarship recipient

Guest Lecturer for:

• William Becvar, Film History (Theatre)
• Amanda Feller, Public Speaking (Communication)
• Kate Grieshaber, Freshman Writing Seminar

Library Liaison: Women’s Studies

Communication and Theatre Department

Advising:

Departmental Curriculum Revision Committee (current)

Library Liaison: Communication & Theatre

Directed/Mentored Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, Heather Wendt (1999-2000)

Initiated, and co-planned with Dr. Ed Inch, successful Wang Center grant proposal (2001; See Grants)

Co-planned departmental major emphasis in Social Advocacy

Assisted in development of SAC (Student Advisory Committee); created major class assignment in COMA 436: Persuasion to develop campaign recommendations for SAC (2001)

Organized student panel at Northwest Communication Association (2000) based upon students’ research papers in COMA 485: Honors Seminar (Spring 1999)

Faculty Search Committee (1999)

Portland State University: Institutional & Departmental (Selected, 1986-1998)

• Faculty Marshal for Commencement
• Office of Student Affairs: Workshops & Seminars
• Campus Lectures:

"The Process of Invention in Scholarship: A Personal Tour"

"Ideological Foundations of Commemorative Discourse"

"Meanings of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial"

• Committee Work:

College Committee on Departmental Governance Documents

College Curriculum Committee

Department Pay, Promotion, & Tenure Committee (member; chaired)

• Leadership & Initiatives:

Acting Chair of Department, 1998

Director of Graduate Studies, 1989-1992

Chaired Department Curriculum Committee

Wrote Department Governance Document on Faculty Scholarship Portfolios

Organized & served as Faculty Advisor for Union of Communication Students

Coordinated Department Research Colloquium Series

Service to the Profession

Conference Seminar Leader: “Visual Rhetorics of Witnessing: Representation, War, and Cultural Trauma,” at Visual Rhetorics Conference, Indiana University, September 2001.

Lectures:

• “Whitewashing Jim Crow: Fantasies of Racial Justice in The Green Mile,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, May 2002
• “African-American Resistance to Race Violence during Jim Crow,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, May 2002.
• "Why We Fought: Holocaust Memory in Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan," University of Puget Sound, Nov. 1999. Note: Lecture series open to general public.
• "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Cultural Symbol," Marylhurst College, 1987

Editorial Board Member/Reviewer

• Quarterly Journal of Speech (2007 )
• Critical Studies in Media Communication (2001-2003)
• Communication Monographs (1993-96)
• Communication Theory (Book Reviews Editorial Board)
• Journal of Applied Communication Research (1991-1993)
• Western Journal of Communication (1996-1999)
• International and Intercultural Communication Annual (1993-1995)
• Systemsletter, Information Systems Division of International Communication Association (1983-1984)

Positions Held in Professional Associations

• Chair, Intercultural Communication Division, Eastern Communication Association
• Institutional Representative, College & University Division, Speech Communication Association
• Chair, Nominations Committee, Speech Communication Association
• Chair, Nominations Committee, Eastern Communication Association
• Nominations Committee, B. Aubrey Fisher Award, Western States Communication Association (1999)

Critic/Respondent at Professional Conferences

• National Communication Association
• International Communication Association
• Western States Communication Association
• Eastern Communication Association
• Northwest Communication Association

Reviewer of Textbooks & Scholarly Works

• Holt, Rinehart & Winston
• Random House
• Wadsworth
• Ablex Publications

Service to Community (1995-present)

Speaker/Moderator for Seattle premiere of The Grey Zone (Lion’s Gate Films), Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, October 2002.

Speaker/Moderator at film series on the Holocaust, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, October 2001.

Public Lecture at University of Puget Sound, “Why We Fought: Holocaust Memory in Saving Private Ryan,” October 1999.

Community-Based Learning Projects (while on faculty at Portland State University)

• SP 340: Interviewing & Dept. of Speech Communication Needs Assessment, Winter 1998
• SP 340: Interviewing & Portland/Multnomah County Commission on Aging, Winter 1997
• SP 340: Interviewing & Center for Academic Excellence, PSU, Spring 1996
• SP 340:Interviewing & Portland Area Human Resource Network, Winter 1996
• SP 340:Interviewing & Portland Cable Access Television, Spring 1995

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